She is much pleased with the report, and told Stauracius in my presence that she had done well in choosing you for your office while she was absent from the city, since thereby she had saved the lives of the Caesars and _Nobilissimi_, desiring as she does that these princes should be kept alive, at any rate for the present.
She accedes also to your prayer, and will relieve you of your office as soon as a new governor can be chosen.

You are to return to guard her person, but with your rank of general confirmed." "That is all good news, Martina; so good that I wonder what sting is hidden in all this honey." "That you will find out presently, Olaf.

One I can warn you of, however--the sting of jealousy.

Advancement such as yours draws eyes to you, not all of them in love." I nodded and she went on: "Meantime your star seems to shine very bright indeed.

One might almost say that the Augusta worshipped it, at least she talks of you to me continually, and once or twice was in half a mind to send for you to the Baths.